Bartlett Revisited: New Mexico Tort Law Twenty Years After the Abolition of Joint and Several Liability - Part One

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Bartlett Revisited: New Mexico Tort Law Twenty Years After the Abolition of Joint and Several Liability - Part One

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Occhialino, Mario

Abstract

On the twentieth anniversary of the abolition of joint and several liability in New Mexico, this article reviews the development of the New Mexico law of several liability. Part One, published here, focuses on the substantive scope of the doctrine, tracing the judicial and legislative developments that have established the breadth and the limits of several liability.